Seventeen Palestinians Killed During Israeli Raid In Gaza GAZA, GAZA STRIP - JANUARY 15: Palestinians carry a body of one of seventeen victims including the son of foreign minister and Hamas Movement leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar Hussam ,22, during their funeral January 15, 2008, in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip. Hussam was reportedly killed in an Israeli air strike during a tank and helicopter military raid that killed 17 Palestinians east of Gaza City. Palestinian sniper fire claimed the life of a 19-year-old Ecuadorian volunteer in an Israeli communal farm during the Israeli raid across the Gaza border.Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash90

Seventeen Palestinians Killed During Israeli Raid In Gaza GAZA, GAZA STRIP - JANUARY 15:Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya article to make a speech during prayers for objects seventeen dead of seventeen victims including the son of foreign minister and Hamas Movement leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar Hussam ,22, at the mosque during his funeral January 15, 2008, in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip. Hussam was reportedly killed in an Israeli air strike during a tank and helicopter military raid that killed 17 Palestinians east of Gaza City. Palestinian sniper fire claimed the life of a 19-year-old Ecuadorian volunteer in an Israeli communal farm during the Israeli raid across the Gaza border.Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash90

Seventeen Palestinians Killed During Israeli Raid In Gaza GAZA, GAZA STRIP - JANUARY 15:Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya article to make a speech during prayers for objects seventeen dead of seventeen victims including the son of foreign minister and Hamas Movement leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar Hussam ,22, at the mosque during his funeral January 15, 2008, in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip. Hussam was reportedly killed in an Israeli air strike during a tank and helicopter military raid that killed 17 Palestinians east of Gaza City. Palestinian sniper fire claimed the life of a 19-year-old Ecuadorian volunteer in an Israeli communal farm during the Israeli raid across the Gaza border.Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash90

Seventeen Palestinians Killed During Israeli Raid In Gaza GAZA, GAZA STRIP - JANUARY 15:Mahmoud al-Zahhar, holds a piece of cloth in the blood of his son Hossam Mahmoud Zahhar of seventeen victims including the son of foreign minister and Hamas Movement leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar Hussam ,22, at the mosque during his funeral January 15, 2008, in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip. Hussam was reportedly killed in an Israeli air strike during a tank and helicopter military raid that killed 17 Palestinians east of Gaza City. Palestinian sniper fire claimed the life of a 19-year-old Ecuadorian volunteer in an Israeli communal farm during the Israeli raid across the Gaza border.Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash90

Seventeen Palestinians Killed During Israeli Raid In Gaza GAZA, GAZA STRIP - JANUARY 15: Palestinians pray over the bodies of seventeen victims including the son of foreign minister and Hamas Movement leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar Hussam ,22, at the mosque during his funeral January 15, 2008, in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip. Hussam was reportedly killed in an Israeli air strike during a tank and helicopter military raid that killed 17 Palestinians east of Gaza City. Palestinian sniper fire claimed the life of a 19-year-old Ecuadorian volunteer in an Israeli communal farm during the Israeli raid across the Gaza border.Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash90

Seventeen Palestinians Killed During Israeli Raid In Gaza GAZA, GAZA STRIP - JANUARY 15: Palestinians pray over the bodies of seventeen victims including the son of foreign minister and Hamas Movement leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar Hussam ,22, at the mosque during his funeral January 15, 2008, in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip. Hussam was reportedly killed in an Israeli air strike during a tank and helicopter military raid that killed 17 Palestinians east of Gaza City. Palestinian sniper fire claimed the life of a 19-year-old Ecuadorian volunteer in an Israeli communal farm during the Israeli raid across the Gaza border.Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash90

Seventeen Palestinians Killed During Israeli Raid In Gaza GAZA, GAZA STRIP - JANUARY 15:Palestinians carried dead bodies inside the mosque age in Gaza City, including son foreign minister and Hamas Movement leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar Hussam ,22, during their funeral January 15, 2008, in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip. Hussam was reportedly killed in an Israeli air strike during a tank and helicopter military raid that killed 17 Palestinians east of Gaza City. Palestinian sniper fire claimed the life of a 19-year-old Ecuadorian volunteer in an Israeli communal farm during the Israeli raid across the Gaza border.Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash90

A little girl, wounded by a qassam rocket , receiving medical assistance, January 15, 2008. Photo by Almog Sugavker/FLASH90.

A 20-year-old volunteer from Ecuador was killed after he was shot by a Palestinian sniper from within the Gaza Strip as he was working in the fields of the Ein Hashlosha kibbutz located near the coastal territory. Tuesday Jan. 15, 2008.Photo by Almog Sugavker/FLASH90

A 20-year-old volunteer from Ecuador was killed after he was shot by a Palestinian sniper from within the Gaza Strip as he was working in the fields of the Ein Hashlosha kibbutz located near the coastal territory. Tuesday Jan. 15, 2008.Photo by Almog Sugavker/FLASH90

A 20-year-old volunteer from Ecuador was killed after he was shot by a Palestinian sniper from within the Gaza Strip as he was working in the fields of the Ein Hashlosha kibbutz located near the coastal territory. Tuesday Jan. 15, 2008.Photo by Almog Sugavker/FLASH90

Israeli soldiers lead blindfolded Palestinian prisoner as they walk from the Gaza Strip through the Karni Crossing at the end of a ground and air operation in Gaza, 15 January 2008. Israeli troops killed at least Palestinians today as fighting around the Hamas-run Gaza Strip escalated a day after the two sides launched talks on the core issues of their conflict. The deadliest single day of violence in months saw the son of top Hamas leader Mahmud Zahar killed, while a civilian just inside Israel was shot dead in a rare sniper attack by militants in Gaza. Photo by Edi Israel/Flash 90

Israeli soldiers lead blindfolded Palestinian prisoner as they walk from the Gaza Strip through the Karni Crossing at the end of a ground and air operation in Gaza, 15 January 2008. Israeli troops killed at least Palestinians today as fighting around the Hamas-run Gaza Strip escalated a day after the two sides launched talks on the core issues of their conflict. The deadliest single day of violence in months saw the son of top Hamas leader Mahmud Zahar killed, while a civilian just inside Israel was shot dead in a rare sniper attack by militants in Gaza. Photo by Edi Israel/Flash 90

Israeli soldiers walk from the Gaza Strip through the Karni Crossing at the end of a ground and air operation in Gaza, 15 January 2008. Israeli troops killed at least 17 Palestinians today as fighting around the Hamas-run Gaza Strip escalated a day after the two sides launched talks on the core issues of their conflict. The deadliest single day of violence in months saw the son of top Hamas leader Mahmud Zahar killed, while a civilian just inside Israel was shot dead in a rare sniper attack by militants in Gaza. Photo by Edi Israel/Flash 90

Israeli soldiers walk from the Gaza Strip through the Karni Crossing at the end of a ground and air operation in Gaza, 15 January 2008. Israeli troops killed at least 17 Palestinians today as fighting around the Hamas-run Gaza Strip escalated a day after the two sides launched talks on the core issues of their conflict. The deadliest single day of violence in months saw the son of top Hamas leader Mahmud Zahar killed, while a civilian just inside Israel was shot dead in a rare sniper attack by militants in Gaza. Photo by Edi Israel/Flash 90

Israeli Tank pass from the Gaza Strip through the Karni Crossing at the end of a ground and air operation in Gaza, 15 January 2008. Israeli troops killed at least 17 Palestinians today as fighting around the Hamas-run Gaza Strip escalated a day after the two sides launched talks on the core issues of their conflict. The deadliest single day of violence in months saw the son of top Hamas leader Mahmud Zahar killed, while a civilian just inside Israel was shot dead in a rare sniper attack by militants in Gaza. Photo by Edi Israel/Flash 90

An Israeli boy inspects the damage done to a house after it was struck by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, 15 January 2007. Hamas took responsibility for the rocket attack. At least 18 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces today as fighting around the Hamas-run Gaza Strip escalated a day after the two sides launched talks on the core issues of their conflict Photo by Edi Israel/Flash 90